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It's not that sophisticated. It's a picture of a baby being taken at a hospital. There's probably hundreds of photos of babies being taken with GPS from that
by iradik 15y ago
It's not that sophisticated. It's a picture of a baby being taken at a hospital.
There's probably hundreds of photos of babies being taken with GPS from that hosptial.
FB image recognition probably thinks all these babies are the same "person".
Then a separate system comes along and takes photos that do not have location info and tries to match them up with ones that do. It finds a match with the "hospital baby" and then asks for verification. Person says YES and it adds that baby to the "hospital baby" pool as well.
- tibbon 15y agoOne other even simpler possibility, Facebook is looking at where you checked in or made status updates from and comparing the timestamps? "I just had a baby" - updated from hospital (Upload photo with timestamp near that status time) Match the two